Adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Preparedness for Caregiving Scale, Caregiver Competence Scale and Rewards of Caregiving Scale in a sample of Swedish family members of patients with life-threatening illness

Background: Family members often take on many caring responsibilities, with complex issues and challenges to consider. Feelings of preparedness, competence and reward are identified as concepts that may protect caregiver wellbeing and decrease negative outcomes related to caregiving. Aim: This study...

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Published in:	Palliative medicine Vol. 26; no. 7; pp. 930 - 938
Main Authors:	Henriksson, Annette, Andershed, Birgitta, Benzein, Eva, Årestedt, Kristofer
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London, England SAGE Publications 01-10-2012 Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:	Adaptation Adaptation, Psychological Adult Aged Cardiovascular disease caregiver Caregivers Caregivers - psychology Carers clinical competence clinical practice Competence critically ill patient Cronbach alpha coefficient Cronbach's alpha Dementia factorial analysis Family - psychology family assessment Family caregivers Female human Humans Illnesses Life threatening Life-threatening illness major clinical study Male Medical personnel MEDICIN MEDICINE Middle Aged Nursing Nursing Science Omvårdnad Palliative care palliative therapy Preparedness Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Psychometric evaluation Psychometrics psychometry Quantitative psychology rating scale Relatives reliability Reward Rewards Self image Surveys and Questionnaires Sweden Validity Vårdvetenskap Sweden United States > US Family caregivers life-threatening illness psychometric evaluation
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Summary:	Background: Family members often take on many caring responsibilities, with complex issues and challenges to consider. Feelings of preparedness, competence and reward are identified as concepts that may protect caregiver wellbeing and decrease negative outcomes related to caregiving. Aim: This study aimed to translate, adapt and psychometrically evaluate the Preparedness for Caregiving Scale, Caregiver Competence Scale and Rewards of Caregiving Scale in Swedish family members of patients with life threatening illness. Design: Correlational. Setting/participants: The study took place in four settings including advanced palliative care. The scales were tested in a sample of 125 family members of persons with life-threatening illness. All three scales were tested in relation to distribution of item and scale scores, missing data patterns, dimensionality, convergent validity and reliability. Results: The results in this study indicate that the Swedish versions of The Preparedness for Caregiving Scale, Caregiver Competence Scale and Rewards of Caregiving Scale are valid, reliable and user-friendly scales. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the scales were unidimensional and all demonstrated Cronbach’s alpha values of ≥0.9. Conclusions: As a result of this study it is anticipated that the Preparedness for Caregiving Scale, Caregiver Competence Scale and Rewards of Caregiving Scale could provide a basis for collaborative research between different countries and make international studies more comparable and generalizable despite differences in language and culture.
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ISSN:	0269-2163 1477-030X 1477-030X
DOI:	10.1177/0269216311419987